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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Payback is a Bitch Named Katrina

Democrats have been howling (do they speak any other way these days?) for Bush/Rove blook, blaming them for every conceivable wrong connected to Katrina. But as time goes along, it's becoming clear that it was the incompetence of New Orleans Mayor Nagin and the inexplicable delays and rebuffs of Louisiana Governor Blanco that were the immediate, culpable problems (pork-barrel politics and "tomorrow's another day" delays were the historic problems).

Now comes some speculative evidence that Blanco's bizarre behavior may have been political payback. Hey, if it's good enough for the howlers, I can use it too.